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" But when by the balance of experience it was found that the astronomer looking to the stars might fall into a ditch, that the inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart,... "
Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks - Page 6
by Sir Philip Sidney - 1807
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Maker's Mind

Dorothy Connell - 1977 - 190 pages
...inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart, then lo, did proof, the...all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have each a private end in themselves, so yet are they all directed to the highest end of the mistress-knowledge,...
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Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry

Philip Sidney - 1983 - 580 pages
...inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart, then, lo, did proof, the...all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have a private end in themselves, so yet are they all directed to the highest end of the mistress knowledge,...
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Between Dream and Nature: Essays on Utopia and Dystopia, Volume 61

Dominic Baker-Smith, C. C. Barfoot - 1987 - 240 pages
...inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart, then lo, did proof the...all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have each a private end in themselves, so yet are they all directed to the highest end of mistress-knowledge,...
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Between Dream and Nature: Essays on Utopia and Dystopia, Volume 61

Dominic Baker-Smith, C. C. Barfoot - 1987 - 240 pages
...inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart, then lo, did proof the...all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have each a private end in themselves, so yet are they all directed to the highest end of mistress-knowledge,...
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The Renaissance in Europe: An Anthology

Peter Elmer, Nick Webb, Roberta Wood, Nicholas Webb - 2000 - 428 pages
...mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart, then lo, did proof, the overr1der of opinions, make manifest that all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have each a private end in themselves, so yet are they all directed to the highest end of the mistress-knowledge,...
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The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents

Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 pages
...hlind in himself: and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart; then fo. did proof, the over-ruler of opinions, make manifest that all these are hut serving sciences, which as they have each a private end in themselves, so yet are they all directed...
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An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second ...

Philip Sidney - 2002 - 286 pages
...inquiting philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart, then lo, did proof, the...all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have each a private end in themselves, so yet are they all ditected to the highest end of the mistress25...
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Selected Writings

Philip Sidney - 2002 - 182 pages
...inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself, and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart: then lo, did proof, the...opinions, make manifest that all these are but serving [subordinate] sciences, which, as they have each a private end in themselves, so yet are they all directed...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 78

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1868 - 868 pages
...inquiring philosopher might be blind in himself; and the mathematician might draw forth a straight line with a crooked heart ; then lo ! did proof, the...all these are but serving sciences, which, as they have a private end in themselves, so yet are they all directed to the highest end of the mistress Knowledge...
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The Prose works of Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney, Albert Feuillerat - 386 pages
...self, & the Mathematician, might draw forth a straight line with a crooked hart. Then lo did proofe, the overruler of opinions make manifest, that all these are but serving sciences ; which as they have a private end in themselves, so yet are they all directed to the highest end of the mistresse...
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